Mainframe Defenders
After playing this for 22 hours, I must say it has been one hell of a ride. Its a nostalgia trip back to XCOM without having to worry about cover but more on your current position. At the highest difficulty, the limits of your tactical prowess are tested to its limits. You need to shoot and advance/retreat at the same time constantly. Thankfully while this is a roguelike, for now, you can return to the main menu and retry again. Why go for the easy mission when you could strive for the harder ones and reward yourself for the hard work?
– Real player with 45.1 hrs in game
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A great little tactics game with lots of style and a fair deal more depth than would first appear on the surface.
Its visuals are stellar, if you’re into the retro style, with plenty of very satisfying little animations and effects. The menus, explosions, and gunfire all look and feel amazing. Perhaps not as stylish as something like Cogmind, but definitely in the same wheelhouse.
The audio is fantastic, with really nice oldschool techno beats that feel straight out of synthwave cyberpunk fare, alongside unique sound effects for just about every gun and enemy in the game.
– Real player with 41.8 hrs in game
SHIRO
“Boot Successful."
Awoken by a quake of unknown origin, a lone android opens her eyes in the depths of a top-secret laboratory. Why is it so empty? Why are these doors… locked? The silence is… deafening.
SH1-R0 follows a rogue android through the story of her two-sided conflict caused by the mistakes of an eons-dead alien race, and the ambitions of humans that are on the verge of repeating them.
As a highly advanced combat android, string together earth-shaking combos to crush waves of enemies while you explore labyrinthine high-security facilities all over Earth… and from beyond the stars.
Your combat abilities are unimpeded by the length of your weapon. Pick your fighting style and bring enemies down to your own turf or take the fight to them!
Unlock advanced movement abilities to reach new areas, and blaze through familiar ones with blinding speed. Dash, climb, crawl, and wall-jump, your exploration arsenal is fully-loaded.
Explore mazelike laboratories, high-tech military posts, and ocean-borne floating utopias with sprawling pathways, doors, and puzzles. The map doesn’t tell the full story!
Features:
High-Speed Combat – Take on entire battalions of enemy soldiers and alien defense mechanica with lightning-fast movement abilities and fluid combat abilities. Frame-perfect controls offer simple-to-learn, difficult-to-master combat that is satisfying to both genre-newcomers and veterans alike. Find your playstyle amongst a variety of weapons and combos!
Hand-Crafted Pixel Art World – From desolated laboratories to alien military space stations, every pixel of the environment is hand-crafted to bring SH1-R0’s immersive storyline to life.
Full Orchestral Original Soundtrack – The entirely original soundtrack brings the epic proportions of SH1-R0’s story full-circle, bringing a new level of immersion to the environment and action.
Highly-Developed Character Cast – Meet a broad cast of characters both friend and foe, and sometimes in between. Keep your wits about you, not everyone has you in their best interests.
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Starshot
Stardust is the most valuable substance in the galaxy. Will your search for stardust in an automated production facility lead to your triumphant escape or inevitable demise?
Gameplay
Starshot is a difficult action-orientated shoot em up with rogue-like and dungeon crawler elements. Fly your starship through multiple randomised levels collecting unique combinations of weapons, engines, defences and augmentations. Every playthrough will be different as you face different bosses, collect different upgrades and explore unique levels. Use keys to unlock chests and augmentation rooms, spend your hard-earned stardust in the store and explore the rooms for items. Can you use your ace piloting skills to collect enough stardust to escape the facility or will you be destroyed in the process?
Features
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Over 12 unique boss fights
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Over 50 collectable items to power up your ship
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Pickup and swap out any weapons, engines and defences that you find
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4 playable ships
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Randomised levels
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Permadeath - when you die, you start right back at the beginning!
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Cartridge Defense
I’ve played a lot of tower defense games and this one is really compelling. There are difficulty spikes that had me ragequitting, but here’s some advice - don’t be afraid to spread your towers out, and sponsorship mode is endgame.
I love and I hate this game. The number of stages that you spend 30 minutes in, doing really well, and then the boss monster comes out and FUCKING STEAMROLLS YOU is waaaaaay too high. Also there are only a handful of “winning” round 1 plays, I am restarting a lot and I wish there was a better system in place to make sure you have an actual play round 1.
– Real player with 98.3 hrs in game
This game right here is a gem. I have played hundreds of tower defense games, this ones special. Starts simple, and keeps adding layers with tower cards as you progress/farm. the effects on cards add so many ways to play. What a delight to not have a games in game purchase cost money!! it costs regents from playing lvl/farming to purchase packs for more cards, which packs seem to get better as you progress? easy to get to! It still has some bugs i have come into. but for me. nothing game breaking. Just notice it at keep playing/grinding. I am the type of person that likes to jump around from mmo to shooter, to thinker games. like tower defense or whatever. I like to have a game of each type to play at will. and this one has filled a void missing for tower defense for a minute. im a deep fan of such games likes orcs must die 2. where u can really set stuff up. and yes i gave up trying to type proper…can you tell? :)
– Real player with 44.5 hrs in game
Cosmica
The game has some polishing to do - things are a little tricky to figure out at first; there’s too much text on some screens; and I like the retro vibes from the art style, but not all the cards have unique art at this point. Once you past the initial lack of clarity though, it’s interesting and unique gameplay. The card effects are simple yet the strategy is intricate, and the deck manipulation aspect is something I haven’t experienced before - l have to think about every play, as opposed to some rogue-like deckbuilders where I often feel I’m on autopilot. I tried it on Steam Link too, and it transfers nicely to mobile. I look forward to seeing what comes of it.
– Real player with 15.8 hrs in game
Top notch for an indie game! My son loves pokemon cards and he got right into this game, I’ll have to get him a copy!
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Dynarog 2
2021/09/22 added: Thanks to dev’s reply, I confirmed that operability with gamepad (I used Dualshock 4) is alright. However, this game has some bugs such as stack in a wall by teleport into it, repair station’s UI scale is not fixed for each resolution (My graphic setting was low quality and 1280*720p). And I want to be able to change button layout of gamepad as well as keyboard.
Although this game needs a lot of improvements for accessibility, game mechanics such as changing stats by sacrificing other stats, able to attack as well as evade enemy attack with teleport are unique and interesting. So, I’m looking forward to further update.
– Real player with 5.9 hrs in game
I really like to play this game, but in it’s current state, I cant even start the first wave.
You have to move with:
Z - Up
S - Down
Q - Left
D - Right
Really unconfortable, and you can’t change keybinds as of now. Seems bugged.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
Here Comes The Hero
1 on 1 action roguelike game with “Saturday Morning Show” art style where you fight through a randomly generated path filled with villains and events until you defeat the final boss.
Simplified control for more focus on action and strategy
Customizable & upgradeable attack and skill
Micro stories that will unravel on every battle
fight through a randomly generated path
Far Sector
You’re a spaceship captain, and your objective is to explore the depths of the far sector. Build, research, and use the sector’s uncharted horrors to your advantage. How far will you go to accomplish your goal? What are you willing to sacrifice? The decision is all yours, captain.
Your own space base
- Build, improve, and optimize. Ensure that your station can withstand whatever is thrown at it.
Encounter the horrors of the far sector
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Meteorite fields keeping you from getting through the cold cosmos.
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Spatial anomalies that challenge the very laws of physics humans have used to understand the world around them.
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Strange organisms with qualities never seen before. They bring with them incredible danger as well as the opportunity for scientific breakthroughs.
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Space madness and paranoia that wrap themselves around anyone who has been in deep space for too long. While most people aren’t prone to this problem, a few of your crew members are going to get progressively worse as your travels go on. How will you avert a crisis?
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What else does the far sector have in store for you?
Make the best of catastrophes
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Use mold-contaminated cultures to filter oxygen.
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Study notes of madmen to find encrypted coordinates.
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Spill the blood of an all-consuming alien life form to create a regenerating ointment.
Text events
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Everything you do and anything you decide can impact what happens next, leading to unexpected situations.
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Choose carefully and make wise decisions knowing that each choice you make could be crucial.
Crew members
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Have skills, attributes, and weaknesses that impact their work speed, their stamina, the resources they require, and the situations they tend to bring on.
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Can get sick or make breakthroughs in their area of expertise. The Eureka! events that happen to scientists can leapfrog you into the future, even giving you new tech you wouldn’t otherwise have access to.
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Sometimes write personal journal entries that tell you more about what’s happening outside the confines of your mission.
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Need a watchful eye since it’s somewhat difficult to find new people in the depths of space.
Anything can happen, even in the safe zone
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Random events
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Meteorites
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Fires
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Short-circuits
The effort you put in now will pay dividends in the future
- Expeditions' data will be sent to coalition headquarters, and you can start your next mission with an even better technological base.
Outcasts of Orion
Outcasts of Orion is an autobattler roguelike combining a solid game loop and varied strategic potential to offer an engaging experience with much replayability. You draft from a variety of randomly presented abilities and units to craft your squad and discover unexpected synergies. The game does struggle a bit early on in conveying the appeal of its mechanic, but given some time, it reveals an underlying layer of depth that keeps you coming back. If you are a fan of either autobattlers or strategy roguelikes, this game is worth giving a shot.
– Real player with 37.0 hrs in game
I’ve come back to add, this game has more layers and depth than I originally imagined it may be “feigning”. On the flip side, the enemy formations are a little limited. There is deviation from the standard, but buy in large, there are a few standard formations you will find them in. That said, for the price point, what you are getting is more than fair from where I stand, and the developer seems to be active on the boards, and they seem to be keeping an eye on this game and keeping it in a good state.
– Real player with 22.0 hrs in game
Synth War Tactics
very fun game, reminds me of Fallout: Tactics. The different build combinations are insane, really lets you build your team and play how you want.
– Real player with 13.9 hrs in game
If you like turn-based tactic games you should check this out! The melee is really fun and I really like the music.
– Real player with 2.2 hrs in game